The Mangan Park Neighborhood Association is hosting a public safety and candidate discussion call on Monday, September 26^th at 6pm. It will be by Zoom with Chief Lester, Mick Boyd, and the two D5 City Council candidates, Caity Maple and Tamiko Heim.

Land Park residents are invited to attend this ZOOM meeting.

Current agenda:

1) Chief Lester 15-20 mins. to speak; 10-15 mins. for Q&A from the audience;

2) Mick Boyd 15-20 mins. to speak, 10-15 mins. for Q&A from the audience;

3) D5 City Council candidates Tamiko Heim and Caity Maple will respond to four questions about public safety and parks maintenance that were sent to them in advance of the meeting;  The four questions are below if you are curious about them before the meeting.

4) Neighborhood chit-chat – calendar/events, additional concerns, etc.

Here’s the zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84124536979

Meeting ID: 841 2453 6979
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Four Questions for Tamiko Heim and Caity Maple

1)  Many residents of D5 – including Mangan Park – are concerned about public safety in their area.  If you are elected to represent District 5 in the City Council, please describe the types of strategies and policies you will support to improve public safety in Sacramento, and which types of strategies and policies will you not support?

2) The former city tree nursery has been a vacant city property in Mangan Park for more than a decade, and has been creating public safety problems for area residents. It is not an exaggeration to say that Mangan Park residents are desperate to have that property occupied daily for our safety’s sake.  Which steps will you take to ensure that this city property is well-utilized and occupied on a daily basis, and how soon can you make that a reality?

3) The parkspace of Mangan Park is 8.3 acres, and has the capacity to be an important multi-sport athletic complex for South Area residents.   It is not only the recreational greenspace for Mangan Park, but also for Hollywood Park and North City Farms – which do not have public parks within their own neighborhoods. This makes Mangan Park the recreational greenspace for over 7,000 District 5 voters. and it needs attention and renovation to bring it to it’s functional best.  What is your vision for a fully-renovated Mangan Park, and what is your plan to find the funding to make your vision a reality?

4)  Other parks in District 5 are even more poorly supported than Mangan Park.  For example, the 6.3 acre Woodbine Park hasn’t been watered all summer.  A Woodbine football team that tried practicing there found that the grass was so dry it was closer to a brillo pad than grass – their elbows got scraped if they dove for the ball or tripped on a rough patch.  They were forced to drive team members out of their neighborhood to have a place to practice safely.  The trees of Woodbine Park started losing their leaves in August due to the dryness of the soil, and there was no one to blow and remove the leaves for weeks – making Woodbine Park a tinderbox ready to burn at the first spark from a homeless cooking fire (which is happening in all of our parks). The recently passed housing density and FAR maps indicate that some parts of Woodbine can now be redeveloped with a much denser population with the parcels near the mixed-use commercial corridors eligible to be redeveloped with a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 5.  https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/CDD/Planning/General-Plan/2040-General-Plan/Citywide-Land-Use-and-FAR-Maps_December2021.pdf?la=en   In the now-passed Housing Element’s Vacant and Underutilized Parcel Inventory, two adjacent parcels on Indian Lane in Woodbine with a combined acreage of 9.5 acres (currently serving as light rail station parking lots) are discussed as being zoned for 100-150 units per acre (that’s approximately 300-450 people per acre.).  Given this much potential increase in the population of the 0.525 sq. miles of Woodbine neighborhood, the size of Woodbine Park is likely to be inadequate to meet the recreational greenspace needs for Woodbine residents, even if it is watered.  Which steps will you take to ensure that all low-resource neighborhoods like Woodbine get the city resources they need for residents to be safe, healthy, and with walkable access to sufficient, well-maintained greenspaces to accommodate an increasingly dense and car-less population?